Supremetronic Redux

[Maureen]

Reminded me of The Computer Shop Trintronics on Queen Street around
McCall! But then that was back in the dark ages!! Few people actually
went into computer stores in those days.

On Sun, 2012-09-02 at 21:21 -0400, phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org wrote:
> Remember Supremetronic, who used to be on Queen Street? They had a lot of
> useful stuff, especially audio connectors and a good collection or
> resistors and capacitors. The owner wanted to retire, and the location is
> now worth a fortune of course, so he sold off the business. Lawrence Chan,
> who worked there at the time, then started Creatron, which is on College
> just east of Spadina.
> 
> Creatron too has a lot of interesting stuff, with more emphasis on
> microprocessors (Arduino, of course, and now Rasberry Pi). (Full
> disclosure: they sell our oscilloscopes.) Lawrence is quite knowledgeable
> about his stock and about electronics in general.
> 
> Supremetronic ended up at Honson computer on College, just west of
> Spadina, where it was pretty terrible as I recall. Then the Supremetronic
> stock migrated to a Home Hardware across the road, so you could pick up a
> paint roller at the same time as a 1200 ohm resistor. Very handy. Now they
> have moved a bit east, still on the north side, at 290 College. I was in
> there today and the space allocated to the electronics bits (in the
> basement) is quite enlarged. There seems to be a huge number of audio
> connectors, about as many as I recall from the original Supremetronic.
> They are still setting up, but it should be worth a visit when they get it
> all together.
> 
> Speaking of electronics stores, on Saturday I happened to be in the
> Factory Direct at 1399 Kennedy (Tacky Kennedy, as some TLUGer put it).
> Man, what a dive. They make a dollar store look like Holt Renfrew. But
> there were a lot of people in there..
> 
> And Above All seems to still be in play - now out in Korea Town, south
> side of Bloor. I was by there on a Sunday, when they were closed. It's
> really tiny. But I recall the proprietor as a pleasant, knowledgeable guy,
> and they did have some useful stuff from time to time.
> 
> We are very well served by these electronics stores. I was in San
> Francisco/Silicon Valley  a while ago and to my surprise could not find
> anything remotely comparable.
> 
> Peter
> 
> 


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